Ron Chernow Quote
To arm and exasperate the negroes in the South.75 Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Suddenly Grant’s political tendencies became of more than theoretical interest. Ben Butler, now a Radical Republican, wondered privately whether Grant can be trusted to disobey positive orders of his chief? When the hour of peril comes, shall we not be
Ron Chernow
To arm and exasperate the negroes in the South.75 Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Suddenly Grant’s political tendencies became of more than theoretical interest. Ben Butler, now a Radical Republican, wondered privately whether Grant can be trusted to disobey positive orders of his chief? When the hour of peril comes, shall we not be